Petrichor · @sinabhfuil
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2/2 This was the area where recruited the Citizen Army; many of the desperately poor people from this triangle made the core of the 1916 Rising; afterwards, they stood too ready to join the , but the continually told them "We'll ask you when we need you" - they were excluded in the Free State and are now excluded in the Republic

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